Project main rubrics20-25 pages
Addresses all program (NP) and university outcomes (9 elements) and provides evidence of successful completion |
Provides course and clinical exemplars to demonstrate stated criteria |
Provides evidence of ethical, social, research, and policy aspects of program learning |
Provides a discussion of theoretical model(s) of nursing and applies this to personal definition of advanced practice |
Incorporates relevant professional literature into the scholarly paper (minimum of 5 scholarly references) |
Uses appropriate APA format and scholarly writing style throughout. |
In-depth knowledge of a discipline or content area.
- Integrate the standards of professional nursing practice in a variety of
leadership roles that include both direct and indirect nursing care
components.
- Intervene at the system level through the policy development process
and to employ advocacy strategies to influence health and health care at
the local, state, and national level.
- Synthesize an advanced level of nursing knowledge and relevant
sciences to influence health care outcomes for individuals, populations,
or systems.
- Demonstrate competence in advanced clinical practice to improve the
quality of health care for clients in a variety of health care settings.
Knowledge of diverse cultures, perspectives and belief systems.
- Integrate broad, organizational, client-centered, and culturally
appropriate concepts in the planning, delivery, management, and
evaluation of evidence-based clinical prevention and population care
and services to individuals, families, and aggregates/identified
populations.
Knowledge of arts, sciences, and humanities.
- Assimilate scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial fields,
genetics, public health, quality improvement, and organization sciences
for the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse settings.
- Synthesize concepts from the arts and humanities into various direct
and indirect practice environments.
- Synthesize advanced knowledge using theories, research, concepts and
principles from nursing, behavioral, social, physiologic and
pharmacologic sciences in the area of advanced clinical practice.
Ability to think critically.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills in practice
decision making.
- Translate scholarship into practice by applying research outcomes
within the practice setting, resolving practice problems, working as a
change agent, and disseminating results.
- Critically analyze and utilize existing knowledge to provide high
quality health care, initiate change, and improve nursing practice.
- Observe, conceptualize, analyze and diagnose complex clinical or nonclinical
problems as they relate to health and illness.
Ability to communicate effectively.
- Initiate collaborative relationships as a member and leader of
interprofessional teams, while communicating, collaborating, and
consulting with other health professionals to manage and coordinate care
- Communicate and collaborate with consumers, professionals, and other
groups to manage care and enhance the health of clients and families
through emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention.
- Demonstrate ability to professionally present ideas both orally and in
written form in an articulate, scholarly, literate, and organized manner.
Ability to use contemporary technology.
- Use patient care and communication technologies to deliver, enhance,
and coordinate care.
- Utilize and evaluate appropriate educational technologies for selected
clinical decision making and to promote health maintenance and disease
prevention.
Commitment to ethical and social responsibility.
- Apply ethical principles to practice in a variety of health care and/or
educational settings using an ethical decision making model.
- Exemplify a philosophy of nursing and health care based upon personal
and professional standards of values, ethics, social responsibility, and
service to others.
- Utilize theory and research in understanding ethical problems and in
determining nursing therapeutics and clinical management options.
- Integrate the ethical, legal, and health care policy dimensions of clinical
issues confronting health care and nursing.
Commitment to leadership and service to others.
- Employ quality improvement and safety methods, tools, performance
measures, and standards in an organization.
- Execute organizational and systems leadership skills within the
interprofessional health care team to maximize individual and
population health.
- Critique the effectiveness of policy decisions on health care outcomes.
- Integrate a variety of nursing roles into advanced practice roles
including health care leader, steward of the nursing profession, and
lifelong learner.
Commitment to learning as a life-long endeavor.
- Contribute to professional leadership in nursing and society through
continuing research, critical writing, oral presentation, and participation
in and leadership of professional organizations.
- Demonstrate accountability for continued personal and professional
growth.
- Incorporate standards of professional nursing practice, personal values
and integrity, research, social responsibility and commitment to lifelong
learning to ensure high quality practice.
Nurse Practitioner Program Outcomes
Program Outcomes for the Family Nurse Practitioner specialization maintain that
graduates are prepared to:
- Integrate a variety of nursing roles into advanced practice roles including health care leader,
steward of the nursing profession, and lifelong learner.
- Integrate the ethical, legal, and health care policy dimensions of clinical issues confronting health
care and nursing.
- Critique the effectiveness of policy decisions on health care outcomes.
- Demonstrate competence in advanced clinical practice to improve the quality of primary health
care for clients in a variety of health care settings.
- Synthesize advanced knowledge using theories, research, concepts and principles from nursing,
behavioral, social, physiologic and pharmacologic sciences in the area of advanced clinical
practice.
- Communicate and collaborate with consumers, professionals, and other groups to manage care and
enhance the health of clients and families through emphasis on health promotion and disease
prevention.
- Observe, conceptualize, analyze and diagnose complex clinical or non-clinical problems as they
relate to health and illness.
- Utilize theory and research in understanding clinical problems and in determining nursing
therapeutics and clinical management options.
- Incorporate standards of professional nursing practice, personal values and integrity, research,
social responsibility and commitment to lifelong learning to ensure high quality practice.
- Utilize and evaluate appropriate educational technologies for selected clinical decision making and
to promote health maintenance and disease prevention.
- Meet all requirements for certification in specialty area.
Brief take away from courses
Course names
- Theoretical frameworks
- Advanced pathophysiology
- Advanced health assessment
- Advanced Pharmacology
- Advanced nursing research
- Health Care policy
- Primary care of children
- Primary care I,II,III
- Women’s health
- Health care economics
- Health care ethics
- Professional integration
- Primary care procedure I,II